Coat of arms of the Republic of the Congo

The coat of arms of the Republic of the Congo has a shield with a rampant red lion holding a torch.The background color of the shield is gold with a green, wavy, horizontal stripe along the middle.A banner with the national motto "Unité, Travail, Progrès" (lit.'Unity, Work, Progress'; translated from "La Congolaise") is draped from a bar supporting the war elephants.The arms were adopted in 1960 and readopted in 1991 after having been replaced with a simpler, unheraldic symbol during the People's Republic of the Congo era from 1970 to 1991.
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